Number of visits to this profile: 247
BAM! user since: March 2 2007
Birthday: January 1
Country: Belgium
Sex: Male
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My personal background
Hi, I'm Wim. Born and raised in 1976 in Belgium.

My name is the Dutch version of Will or William in English, the same name in French would be Guy or Guillaume ... According to etymology.

My native language is Dutch. However many in Belgium prefer to call it Flemish because nevertheless the language is ExActlY the same there is quite some difference in the pronouncement/accent/dialect [cross out what is not appropriate] between Flemish (Belgium) and Dutch (The Netherlands). And just in case jou can still follow me there is also a French speaking community (35%) and a German speaking community (5%) in Belgium.

I allways have been a System or Network Administrator. I'm one of the lucky ones that made a profession out of their hobby so this kind of works out for me ;-).
Unfortunately I can't use the company's servers for Bionc ... We've got some SWEET hardware in here.

In time I'll try to expand my hardware at home. I thing Boinc is in general a magnificent project. The concept that people at home or mainstream company's can help find extraterrestrial intelligence, search for a cure for cancer, unlock the secrets of the universe by looking for evidence of pulsars and many more ... all this just by installing a "simple" program on your computer. This is just brilliant. I find it one of the best attempts ever made where every John or Jane Doe can help improve one of the Best assets a human can ever posses : KNOWLEDGE.
... Knowledge you can gain, intelligence is what you have. Let's just hope that the knowledge will be combined wil an equal imporant ammount of intelligence.
And of course I also do it to get more Boinc bragging rights ... I mean credits!! :-)

Yours truly,
Wim.